Word: shotgunning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five weeks after indecisive Turkish elections substituted shaky civilian rule for a military junta, the nation still had no functioning government. But after prodding by Junta Strongman Cemal Gursel, now President, squabbling politicians last week finally formed a Cabinet, result of a shotgun wedding between the two parties that most strenuously campaigned against each other and then received an almost equal share of the popular vote...
...still proudly refusing Pennsy offers to share a roadbed with the Central. But between the mounting financial difficulties and the persuasion of John Murchison, a strong believer that mergers offer the Eastern railroads their best hope of profitability, Perlman finally had little choice but to accede to a shotgun marriage. At a casual glance, the proposed wedding might look like a pooling of weaknesses; the Central lost $25 million in the first nine months of this year and the Pennsy $13 million. But the two roads estimated that by eliminating duplicate equipment and facilities, they can save $100 million...
...otherwise, the walapoho suffers the fate of any other weed, tumbled over by the hoes into the black earth. Work ended around four in the afternoon: water had to be hauled, and the mules taken care of. One of the men might go hunting with an old muzzle-loading shotgun while others looked for mushrooms...
...Green Bay Packers were riding high. They had won four straight games, shattered the Baltimore Colts (45-7) and Cleveland Browns (49-17), needed only to beat the San Francisco Forty-Niners' flashy "shotgun" offense to gain sole possession of first place in the National Football League's Western Division. Then the blow fell: Private Paul Vernon Hornung was ordered to active duty in the U.S. Army Reserve, effective 30 October...
...much anthologized Kneel to the Rising Sun, a grim and eloquent expression of disgust that ends with another dead Negro. One of the things the author says, without raising his voice, is that men will wince at the torture of a dog and then join a shotgun mob. It is not a story that can be read calmly, but it is written calmly and well...